Kassadin with Aphelios
How to Synergize Kassadin and Aphelios
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Kassadin Aphelios Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Kassadin and Aphelios
Tips for Playing as Kassadin with Aphelios
Kassadin's ultimate has many uses and is on a shorter cooldown than most, use it often.
Kassadin has multiple item paths; he can go caster via Mana and Ability Power or anti-caster with Cooldown Reduction and Magic Resist.
Try to get the Ancient Golem buff to counteract Riftwalk's increasing Mana cost.
Advice to Understand How Aphelios Will Play
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
Kassadin Aphelios Synergy Stats
How to Play with Aphelios as Kassadin in LoL
The Kassadin Aphelios synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Aphelios, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Kassadin sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Aphelios. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Aphelios helps Kassadin perform poorer in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Kassadin plays on the same team as Aphelios, he sees a little drop in his complete damage dealt. This difference may demonstrate that Aphelios does not support by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Kassadin is played with Aphelios on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Aphelios.
Additionally, when Kassadin plays with Aphelios on the same team, he on average takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Aphelios does a decent job of protecting Kassadin in team fights.
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Is Kassadin better when played alongside Aphelios?
There is no ideal synergy for Kassadin that will 100% of the time be his ideal teammate. Yet, Aphelios is a below average teammate for Kassadin. By being on the same side as Kassadin, he decreases their win rate by -1.9% to 48.1%. This signals that there is a bad synergy between Kassadin and Aphelios that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Aphelios has a greater difficulty than Kassadin. That means you need to be very careful when lining up Aphelios teammates to play with, as they will need a greater level of skill to fight well with you.
Working cooperatively, Kassadin players should see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. When paired, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Although, by bringing Kassadin and Aphelios together, you will not be providing your other teammates a lot of protection for burst damage. Plan to pick other champs on your team that helps cover this relative gap in their potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Aphelios ally, you should focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Kassadin to synergize with Aphelios during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to master a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to use in your Kassadin and Aphelios synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Malignance, and Rod of Ages. When Kassadin bought at least these three finished items in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Aphelios than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Kassadin boasted an average winrate of 48.1% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Aphelios with this build.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against your oponents, Kassadin players should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Sudden Impact, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 48.1% win rate overall.
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